June 2012

  • Zenobia: Empress of the East: Zenobia on the Big Screen.

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  • This one’s just starting to filter through the Classics list (tip o’ the pileus to Patrick Rourke and Susan Lusnia) … The Washington Post has a lengthy piece on the University of Virginia’s ousting of their President Teresa Sullivan … the reasons,  inter alia: Leaders of the University of Virginia’s governing board ousted President Teresa…

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  • Just starting to hear about this one … the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham is the latest department to be threatened by beancounters who just don’t get it. There’s a blog to follow developments at: Save the IAA … and a petition here  … we’ll keep an eye on this…

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  • Brian Sewell and Map

    The Telegraph has an interview with art critic Brian Sewell … inter alia, some ClassCon: […] I travelled in Turkey at great length for a number of years and always carried the same knapsack (pictured). In 1987, while following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, I found an abandoned puppy with a dislocated shoulder…

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  • Mark Walker sent this notice out: The new issue (#5) of Vates: The Journal of New Latin Poetry is now available in pdf format here: http://pineapplepubs.snazzystuff.co.uk/Vates%205.pdf

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